The first Windows Phone from Nokia finally emerge in the Nokia World event held in London. It is called the Nokia Lumia 800, the handset is using Windows Phone 7.5 or Mango operating system.
The Nokia and Microsoft alliance is expected to compete the might of iPhone and Android in the smartphone market. The Nokia Lumia 800 has become the first weapon of Nokia for that ambition. The Nokia Lumia 800 is a high end handset with the price range around 420 euro. It’s specifications are like; 3.7” AMOLED screen, 1,4 GHz processor, 512 MB RAM, HD video playback, and internal memory up to 16 GB. For the camera, it is using 8 MP camera with flash. Windows Phone itself still have a very small amrket share of around 1,6%. This partnership with Nokia is expected to boost this flagship Microsoft’s platform.
The Android OS has been successful on being the most popular software platform in term of application download. They even beat iOS, Apple Inc Operating System.
The Google platform owns the market share of 44% from all application downloads in the second quarter. Apple stands under Android with 31% market share. The key to Android success lies in the open source strategy. With this ‘openness’, Google enables every phone producers to use them for free and focusing on hardware design rather than the software. The increase of Android gadget shipment also plays an important role. In the second quarter of 2011, iPhone shipment shows a decrease from 15% to 9%. On the other hand, Android shipment reaches 36% in the second quarter, an increase from the first quarter with 20%. The support from vendors are also popularize Android. For example the Samsung Electronics Co, now have become one of the ultimate smartphone with Android producer. Not only that, Android is also able to help the recovery of Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc.
The camera quality improvement of the Apple iPhone is being documented by the Camera+ application creator. Herein we can see the comparison of pictures taken with the iPhone camera from generation to generation, the iPhone 2G, 3G, 3Gs, 4, and 4s.
It is Lisa Bettany, the creator of Camera+ application that uses 5 iPhone models to take the picture of the same object. Here we can see the distinctive different levels of clarity and focus. The first generation iPhone is known to have only 2 MP resolution camera, the picture taken is not too focus. This is rather disappointing, since focus is one of the most important factor of a camera. Lucky, Apple increase the camera quality to 3 MP, and then 5 MP, now the latest iPhone 4s is already equipped with 8 MP camera, and with better lens technology. Bettany said that the iPhone 4s camera can defeat even a high-end compact camera, it is clearer and sharper then other previous iPhone models. Although its quality is not equal to dSLR camera yet, but it can be compared with the lines of compact cameras and even beat them at certain point.
Nokia has released the Symbian Belle operating system as the successor of Symbian Anna in the form of Nokia 600 and Nokia 700. Both of these products are the first products that uses Symbian Belle.
The Nokia 600, which claimed to have a loud voice will be marketed in December 2011. This phone has 1 GHz CPU. As for the Nokia 700, Nokia will release them in October this year. The Symbian Belle offers several enrichment compared to Anna. If Anna only have 3 home screens, Belle will have up to 6 home screen. The NFC feature, the notification is put in one place, more information can be viewed on lock screen condition, also the menu flat is several other offers from the Symbian Belle.
